Will Wright - The future of Gaming

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:25 pm 0

*looks at date*

bugger.

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:57 pm 0

The last lines are meant to read.
"Successful applicants will be informed on 25th August? No... Journalists!"

arron · Post by **arron** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:04 pm 0

Kamineko wrote:The last lines are meant to read.
"Successful applicants will be informed on 25th August? No... Journalists!"

Well, I'm on leave at the moment, so I could go. When they mean journalists are they talking about games press? press in general, EDGE columnists or people who write things for journals? Because I do the latter.

Besides how are they going to know..are they going to have a set of mugshots to identify likely candidates?

As for EA being the future of gaming..I'd be more inclined to have the opinion they'd be the death of games development in the future..

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:18 pm 0

arron wrote: As for EA being the future of gaming..I'd be more inclined to have the opinion they'd be the death of games development in the future..

EA says "WE ARE THE FUTURE OF GAMEING. YOU HAVE NO CHOICE"

Seriously though, Spore does score EA quite a few points,imo.
Allthough Will has made them so much mony it would be hard to turn him down.

failrate · Post by **failrate** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:09 pm 0

From the way he talks, his whole Maxis crew basically gets to stew their own ideas, so they seem to get a lot of leeway there, but he still has to pitch them to the brass (at least, he did *before* The Sims was published

).

edit Also, the EA brass originally predicted The Sims to be a flop

Hajile · Post by **Hajile** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:50 pm 0

failrate wrote:From the way he talks, his whole Maxis crew basically gets to stew their own ideas, so they seem to get a lot of leeway there, but he still has to pitch them to the brass (at least, he did *before* The Sims was published ).

edit Also, the EA brass originally predicted The Sims to be a flop

Can't help but wonder where the Maxis logo is on that advert, then...

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:48 am 0

Hajile wrote:
failrate wrote:From the way he talks, his whole Maxis crew basically gets to stew their own ideas, so they seem to get a lot of leeway there, but he still has to pitch them to the brass (at least, he did *before* The Sims was published ).

edit Also, the EA brass originally predicted The Sims to be a flop
Can't help but wonder where the Maxis logo is on that advert, then...

He's the guy in the glasses.

handcircus · Post by **handcircus** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:34 pm 0

Anyone else go to this last night? Really enjoyed it.

If anyones interested, I wrote a brief write up here:

http://www.handcircus.com/2006/08/30/wi ... ing-bafta/

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:41 pm 0

cheers *goes read*

The Bag · Post by **The Bag** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:54 pm 0

handcircus wrote:Anyone else go to this last night? Really enjoyed it.

I was, but the train drivers strike prevented me from going.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:06 pm 0

Reading the notes it sound great.

Particularly about "education teaching us what we cant do".

handcircus · Post by **handcircus** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:08 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:Reading the notes it sound great.

Particularly about "education teaching us what we cant do".

Yeah - it sounded very much from the heart, he really does believe that such games and interactive software will help kids develop skills and new perspectives and give people the opportunity to fulfil their creative ambitions. such a cool guy.

arron · Post by **arron** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:55 pm 0

handcircus wrote:Anyone else go to this last night? Really enjoyed it.

If anyones interested, I wrote a brief write up here:

http://www.handcircus.com/2006/08/30/wi ... ing-bafta/

Very interesting. Some of your other entries were well worth a read as well (to the video-game oriented scientific mind that I seem to have.. ), so thanks for that!

handcircus · Post by **handcircus** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:45 am 0

arron wrote: Very interesting. Some of your other entries were well worth a read as well (to the video-game oriented scientific mind that I seem to have.. ), so thanks for that!

Thanks arron, glad you liked it/them